Warwick restaurateur hopes to pocket enough to fund sons' snooker dreams

Hosoun Miah, who has run Warwick Spice Indian restaurant in Smith Street for 23 years, is looking to raise £50,000 to help fund costly snooker academy training for his sons Hamim and Halim.

The brothers, aged 21 and 20 from Small Heath in Birmingham, are rising stars on the British and international snooker circuits with a host of championship titles and trophies under their belts.

Hamim also qualified as a WPBSA snooker coach last year in schools and colleges.

But ambitions of making it on the professional stage could be in the balance unless their parents, who have already invested more than £200,000 in developing their careers, can pocket enough sponsorship to support the siblings’ snooker careers.

Hosoun explained: “I first gave them a small snooker table when they were just two and three years old and they never looked back.

"Then as teenagers it all became very serious and being able to compete against one another helped bring them on.

"Now they are both flying, regularly beating ex-professional players with years of experience.”

Hamim comprehensively beat four-times world champion John Higgins in an exhibition match recently and just this month achieved the maximum 147 break.

He is currently enrolled in a snooker academy in Sheffield, but both brothers are working to break through into the top rankings required for entering professional competitions.